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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Alicia caught by the Gestapo?

2. What had Mrs Gold given Alicia in a package?

3. How did Alicia's mother try to save her father?

4. After being rescued by Milek, when Alicia wakes, where does she find herself?

5. How is Bunio killed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who help to nurse Alicia back to health after she escapes being sent on a death march?

2. When the Germans arrived in Poland, what has happened to the Russians and Poles?

3. Why are Alicia and her family more prepared for the move to the ghetto?

4. As the winter comes, how do the Jews protect themselves from Nazi raids?

5. What action of some of the Nazi soldiers shows how cruel and heartless many of them were?

6. What did many of Alicia's brothers and male friends grow up doing?

7. What causes Alicia to be picked up in a transport car?

8. Why does meeting Bella's family help Alicia make it through through this section of the novel?

9. How did life change once the Russians took over control of Poland?

10. How does Alicia finally find her way back to her hometown and what does she find when she arrives?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

After the war, why does Alicia strive to gain education?

Does she think that it will better her life to be educated?

Is going to school allowing her to catch up on a life she missed out on?

Essay Topic 2

During World War II, the Russian and Germans had a very tense relationship.

Describe the international relations between the Russians and Germans at the beginning of the war.

What changes in Russian-Nazi relations, to cause Russia to join the allies and work to liberate Eastern Europe.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the ghettos that Alicia was constantly forced to live in.

How did these ghettos work to separate the Jewish Poles from other Poles?

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